128 Yorkshire Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 8913 NE ROCHDALE YORKSHIRE STREET (south side)

10/129 No. 128 16 March.1984

G.V. II

House, formerly police office, now offices. Late C18, altered c.1900. Front elevation brick, side and rear coursed sandstone with stone slate roof. 2 bays, 2 storeys, gable stacks and stone quoins. Canted oriel to right first floor otherwise replacement tripartite sashes. Central doorcase with architrave frame, plain frieze and cornice.

Rear: c.1800 canted bay with tripartite sash above. C19 brick and rendered extension to right and left. Interior retains room with original panelling: wide central staircase. Historic interest as the building in which the government of the town was transacted by Improvement Commissioners between 1825 and 1856 when the Borough was incorporated. A rare survival from an important period in the development of local government in England.

Listing NGR: SD8986813663

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 Ioe Records Taken By Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project